Posted in family, fun, tagged family fun, photos on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today was a great day spent with family! Natalie, Joey, Cupcake, and Blue Eyes are here visiting for a couple of days, so we decided to go on an outing to Chuckie Cheese’s. Drama Queen and I picked up Beth, Spiderman, and Ladybug and headed out for an adventure. Unfortunately, Ashley and Phillip had to miss out [...]
Posted in blogging, family, tagged blogging, family, friends, photos on February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Front row: Drama Queen, Spiderman, me, Ashley(holding Blue Eyes), and Joey (holding Cupcake). Second Row: Beth(holding Ladybug), Phillip, and Natalie. This is my wonderful family, and I’m so glad to finally share them with you.
Spiderman, Cupcake, Blue Eyes, and Ladybug. These are my precious grandbabies, they are the light of my life!
I want to say a [...]
Posted in faith, prayer, tagged Christianity, faith, holiness, prayer, religion on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.” - Billy Sunday
This quote was in our church newsletter this morning. When I read it I was struck by [...]
Posted in blessings, thankfulness, tagged blessings, children, family, friends, God, grandchildren, marriage, thankfulness on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A new blogger friend, Angela, at The Chillemi Weblog , has put out a challenge to post ten things we are thankful for. I think this is such a great idea, we are so blessed by our Heavenly Father and we should take time to thank Him.
1. I am very thankful for my salvation, that Jesus died [...]
Posted in family, tagged children with disabilities, motherhood on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I want to tell you about one of my favorite people in the world, who also happens to be a hero in my eyes. She is my sister-in-law, Gay. She was only thirteen when Ashley and I got married, and I’ve known her most of her life. I have watched her grow up and become [...]
Posted in birthdays, family, tagged beach, birthday, family, food, Lowcountry on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re back at home after a wonderful visit with family on the coast. We had a pleasant surprise Wednesday morning before we left to go down, Natalie and Joey called and said they were coming down also. They came in Wednesday evening and stayed until early Friday morning, so we were able to spend some time with [...]
Posted in family, fun, prayer, tagged beach, family, family photo, prayer, vacation on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re heading home to the coast tomorrow morning to visit family, we’re all packed and very excited about the trip. We haven’t been back home since last summer and we’ve really missed seeing our families. We’ll be celebrating Ashley’s mom’s birthday tomorrow when we arrive.
The weather is supposed to be nice there this week, upper 60’s [...]
Posted in faith, family, life, tagged faith, family, life on February 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I received an email yesterday from one of my closest friends. It was a beautiful picture of the hands of five generations of women, followed by the story of a grandmother’s hands and the things she had experienced with them in her life.
I was so touched by the simple beauty of the photograph, from the baby’s chubby [...]
Posted in family, fun, grandkids, tagged family, fun, grandkids on February 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Spiderman and Ladybug are spending the night with us tonight. They will be hanging out with us for the next couple of days while Beth is out of town visiting her dad, Paul, who is recovering from heart surgery. Beth’s mom and sister have been helping out with the little ones so far this week, and [...]
Posted in adoption, family, tagged birth mom, family, open adoption on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear M.,
How do we thank you for the gift you have given us, a gift that in the giving of it, broke your heart? There are no words to tell you how grateful we are that you entrusted us with your child, that you loved her enough to let us give her a life you couldn’t. As we [...]
